Dalai Lama offers historic prayer in U.S. Senate

By Ryan Teague Beckwith, Digital First Media

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03/06/2014 08:54:17 PM CST

Dalai Lama offers historic prayer in U.S. Senate

The U.S. Senate opened Thursday morning with a prayer from an unusual guest: The Dalai Lama.Though the upper chamber of Congress routinely opens with a prayer, it's usually from the Senate chaplain, historically a clergy member from a mainline Protestant congregation. (Current chaplain Barry Black is a Seventh-day Adventist, the first to hold the post.)Still, the Tibetan Buddhist leader didn't stray too far from previous opening prayers, except that he first said it in Tibetan and then in English:"May there ...